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...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
...Good Bit More. Lewenthal, proprietor of the moneymaking Associated American Artists Galleries (Manhattan, Chicago, Beverly Hills), who has promoted the work of many a U.S. artist (e.g., Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture...
...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...
Last week the whites and Negro Attorney Martin agreed on a truce: restore the science courses to the white school, float a special bond issue to build a new $150,000 Negro school with all courses and conveniences. Superintendent T. Benton Gayle admitted: "It's terribly wasteful-even transportation is segregated, and we have two buses going down the same road. But as a taxpayer, I would rather pay higher taxes and have segregation...
...Tass, the Russian news agency, Benton had a file of its conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...